Drongo Bird Tricks Meerkats | Africa | BBC Earth

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[elo]

I love the dramatic close-up on the meerkat faces when they realized they were fooled again xD. Fantastic camerawork and editing. and drongo is one sneaky son of a bird.

[insanem]

the bird simply takes a payment for the security services

[Avidcomp]

Narrated by a Drongo doing a very good impersonation of David Attenborough.

[lulz]

1:35 those teary eyes after loosing his snack to a scam bird...

[jimmyfortrue]

2:39 ..." You have GOT to be kidding me."

[shellyhusnian]

I thought the Drongo was going to eat the meerkats😂

[KittySYT]

This clip is one of my favourites. The look on those meerkats faces when being tricked. 😂

[spinyslasher]

Meerkats: THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE!!

[avionspirited]

That piano at 02:50 is just awesome! Matches with the whole setting.

[josephxavier]

Incredible nature, the bird knows what it's doing and perfectly does well!

[sfojulius]

These just wouldn't be the same without commentary from Sir David Attenborough!

[richardsonmzaidume]

This goes to show that humans aren't the only creatures capable of being crooks, loafers and free loaders. What a genius of a bird though.

[stevenmcsteven]

2:07 "The juicy scorpion wont be for him" And he took that personally.

[lakojake]

"Outsmarted by a bird" ...which are some of the smartest animals on Earth.

[DrGeneralkumar]

Me: "why not just carry the bite size food with you when you hear the alarm?"

Meerkats: "damnit...."

[FishingAdventuresDubai]

They must hate the birds now. The either get eaten by a bird or get fooled by a bird and loose their hard earned meal. 🤦‍♂️🤣

[wrona_serowa]

Meerkats be like: We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and quite possibly, bamboozled

[ven]

와 그냥 속이는것도 아니고 미어캣울음소리를 따라해서 속이다니... 진짜 똑똑하다

[danuhhh]

A bird steals food and gets called a genius, I steal food and get called a pig :/

[ishkil]

someday, meerkats will learn how to carry their food when they run to their burrows LOL.